Talk on Tyehimba Jess’s Olio at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
January 17, 2023
Step Right Up: Spectacle, Mask, and Minstrelsy in Tyehimba Jess’s Olio. Program in Comparative & World Literature, Tuesday, Feb 7, 5:30-6:30pm
Communal Spaces 2022
September 1, 2022
Communal Spaces 2022 is going up weekends in September. Free outdoor theater!
First Book Institute at CALS
June 8, 2022
David was selected for Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies First Book Institute this summer, moderated by Sean X. Goudie and Priscilla Wald.
Andres Montoya Prize finalist
May 11, 2022
Letras Latinas announced that The Cats of Old San Juan is a finalist for the 2022 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize with the University of Notre Dame Press, chosen by Adela Najarro and Ariel Francisco.
“Lamento Borincano” in The Volta
January 4, 2022
In the special all-video final issue of The Volta, listen to a musical/visual version of the poem “Lamento Borincano” from The Cats of Old San Juan.
Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize
May 27, 2021
Epic Black: Poetics of Protest in the Era of Black Lives Matter has won the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize for writing on African or African American artistic, cultural, and/or historical issues, administered by the History of Art and African American Studies Departments.
Pleiades Magazine 41.1
February 22, 2021
“On a Field in the Present” has been published in Pleiades Magazine 41.1